JDK-4932968 : Support for Locale Vietnamese vi_VN
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: core-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.util:i18n
  • Affected Version: 1.4.2
  • Priority: P5
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: windows_xp
  • CPU: x86
  • Submitted: 2003-10-06
  • Updated: 2004-03-03
  • Resolved: 2004-03-03
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5.0 beta2Fixed
Related Reports
Relates :  
JDK-4989765 - Full writing system support for Vietnamese
Relates :  
JDK-4975324 - Remove the exclusion range for precomposed Vietnamese characters on Windows
Relates :  
JDK-4964721 - Add basic locale data support for Vietnamese
Description

Name: rmT116609			Date: 10/06/2003


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
Request full support for Locale Vietnamese vi_VN:

- Calendar
- Currency
- Locale
- TimeZone
- Collator
- DateFormat
- DateFormatSymbols
- DecimalFormatSymbols
- NumberFormat
- Input Method
- font.properties.vi

JUSTIFICATION :
  To support Java project developments in Vietnam. Java has taken root in Vietnam and is gaining popularity as evidenced by the growing number of Java developers and online programming support communities. The current trend towards low-cost, open-source software, primarily Linux operating system, has also helped drive Java������s popularity.

The community of Vietnamese software developers in Vietnam needs Sun's support in terms of implementation of a Vietnamese locale in J2SE and J2EE to facilitate software design of Vietnamese localized applications using Java.

Incidentally, all or most of the infrastructure support and background information needed for implementing locale vi_VN has already been developed and provided by IBM������s International Components for Unicode (http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu), specifically:

http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/lx/en_US/?_=vi

http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/charts/collation/vi.html

http://oss.software.ibm.com/cvs/icu/~checkout~/icu/source/data/locales/vi.txt (the collation rule is incorrect; see http://www.jtcsv.com/cgi-bin/icu-bugs/incoming?id=3308;page=6;user=guest)

Based on those existing developments and on the Latin base of Vietnamese language, hopefully, it'd be a minor effort for Sun to incorporate a Vietnamese locale into J2SE 1.5 and J2EE 1.4.
(Incident Review ID: 214260) 
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Comments
CONVERTED DATA BugTraq+ Release Management Values COMMIT TO FIX: tiger-beta2 FIXED IN: tiger-beta2 INTEGRATED IN: tiger-beta2
14-06-2004
EVALUATION We are currently evaluating the amount of effort it would take to implement Vietnamese support. We are also looking at the detailed requirements of this locale. ###@###.### 2003-10-29 With the features 4964721 and 4975324 integrated in tiger beta 2, we have finished the work for the tiger release. Further Vietnamese support will be considered in the RFE 4989765. ###@###.### 2004-03-02
02-03-2004